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For 20,313 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,401 out of 20313
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20313
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20313
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    One Day in September
    Given the power of its story, One Day in September seems at times to be pushing too hard.
  2. Cuba feliz
    In painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people, the movie exalts the Marxian dream of honest working folk, with little to show for their labor, living harmoniously, joined in song.
  3. The Children of the Century
    Though well dressed and well made, ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts so many movies about writers. What makes them so fascinating, so representative, cannot really be shown on screen.
  4. Only the Strong Survive
    In its zeal to bring recognition to an underappreciated genre, it has an agenda similar to that of last year's revelatory documentary "Standing in the Shadows of Motown."
  5. Hey! Is Dee Dee Home?
    A rueful, reflective companion piece to "Born to Lose."
  6. Colors
    Though it all comes together, most tragically, at the conclusion, Colors is less notable for its plot than for its chilling urgency and its sense of pure style.
  7. Moonstruck
    The process whereby Loretta and Ronny fall in love is a lot less appealing than the large-family drama unfolding around the Castorinis' kitchen table. [16 Dec 1987, p.C22]
  8. Heathers
    As snappy and assured as it is mean-spirited. Its originality extends well beyond the limits of ordinary high school histrionics and into the realm of the genuinely perverse.
  9. Porn Theater
    Functions best in its voyeuristic, sociological mode, offering fragmentary glimpses of complicated lives and the complicated social rituals that shape them.
  10. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    What really separates "Midlands" from Leone's desiccated, terse genre work is Mr. Meadows's doting attention to his characters' decency. It gives a demonstrative bittersweetness to a likable but small story.
  11. Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    Unfolds, skipping blithely from comic to melodramatic vignettes and back again, it follows the classical structure of a Shakespearean forest comedy, sorting out the mismatched couples and finding appropriate mates (or at least appropriate friendships) for everyone involved.
  12. Apt Pupil
    Both actors play their roles so trickily that tensions escalate until the horror grows unimaginatively gothic.
  13. Big Animal
    Mr. Stuhr, an actor who worked frequently with Kieslowski and who plays the main character in this film, honors his old friend's memory, producing a minor but nonetheless charming footnote to his oeuvre.
  14. Menace II Society
    More acutely than any movie before, it gives cinematic expression to the hot-tempered, defiantly nihilistic ethos that ignites gangster rap.
  15. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    A skillfully organized account of Mr. Rogowski's life and of the sport's boom period. But despite the earnest testimony of two former girlfriends, the movie maintains a chilly distance from its subject.
  16. Yom Yom
    An interesting, elusive hodgepodge of comedy, melodrama and implicit allegory, lighted by occasional sparks of formal bravado.
  17. Welcome to Collinwood
    What the movie lacks in polish, though, it makes up for in pluck, enthusiasm and slapstick shamelessness.
  18. Smoke Signals
    Shows colorful style and a wisdom beyond precocity about its setting and its people.
  19. Mystery Men
    A terrific offbeat cast operating on one shared, loony wavelength.
  20. Smoke
    An inviting but evanescent film that does have casualness, curiosity value and a lot of talent on its side.
  21. WTC the First 24 Hours
    A meditation on the scale of a catastrophe so enormous that all the assembled resources seem paltry and inadequate.
  22. Little Secrets
    Sunny, pleasant, squeaky-clean family film in which nothing surprising happens, and that is the point. Ms. Wood has a poise and wistfulness beyond her years, and she seems likely to follow the path of the child star Diane Lane into more nuanced adult roles.
  23. Albino Alligator
    Events are minor and they unfold slowly. The audience has plenty of time to get ahead of the game.
  24. Pootie Tang
    Pootie Tang may be raw and slovenly -- hey, it often is raw and slovenly -- but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say.
  25. Langrishe Go Down
    A teasing, oblique curiosity of a movie.
  26. Go Tigers!
    Never disrespectful. It leaves you liking and even admiring the people of Massillon for their spunk and their passionate commitment to carrying on a hallowed tradition.
  27. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    Mr. Pettigrew's affection for Fellini and his films animates this documentary and limits its appeal.
  28. Bones
    In exalting the very worst of humanity, Bones displays a special glee and an unusual density of scary imagery.
  29. Petits frères
    Captures the vulnerability and aimlessness of its unfortunate characters with a heart-in-your-throat rawness that recalls some of the more poignant moments of Italian neo-realist cinema.
  30. Center Stage
    Sexy and infectious in spite of itself.
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